The Navy SEAL who shot dead Osama bin Laden was named for the first time today as highly decorated veteran Rob O’Neill.

The disclosure is said to have caused outrage at the Pentagon and O’Neill has reportedly been frozen out by some of his old Special Forces colleagues.

A selfie of Rob O'Neil, the highly trained military operative who killed Osama bin Laden

But the defiant Navy hero insists he is not afraid of reprisals despite firing three bullets into the head of the 9/11 mastermind in the surprise raid on the terror boss’s Pakistani hideaway in May 2011.

O’Neill - who has retired from the force after 16 years service - is set to give a first hand account of the assassination in an interview with Fox News in the US next week.

But after his name emerged last night, O’Neill’s father, Tom, said the family wasn’t afraid of revenge attacks.

‘People are asking if we are worried that ISIS will come and get us because Rob is going public,’ he said from his home in Butte, Montana. ‘I say I’ll paint a big target on my front door and say come and get us.’’

His son, a former member of SEAL Team Six, was portrayed on the big screen in the films Zero Dark Thirty, Captain Phillips and Lone Survivor.

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O’Neill carried out more than 400 combat missions during more than a dozen tours of duty in some of the world’s most perilous war zones. During his military career he was awarded 52 medals, including two Silver Stars, three Presidential Unit citations and four Bronze Stars for valour. He now works as a motivational speaker.

He also helped save Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell after a failed 2005 mission to capture a Taliban leader in Afghanistan. The heroic attempt was turned into a 2013 film starring Mark Wahlberg.

“We got him”: Osama bin Laden died in a raid on his hideout in Pakistan in 2011 (Picture: AP)

O’Neill was also the lead jumper on the Maersk Alabama, the ship taken over by Somali pirates in the drama later made into ‘Captain Phillips,’ a movie starring Tom Hanks.

‘He was the first man out of the bird,’ his father remembered proudly.

However, some SEALS are already ostracising O’Neill for speaking out and breaking the elite unit’s code of honour.

‘Our Ethos is a life-long commitment and obligation, both in and out of the Service. Violators of are Ethos are neither Teammates in good standing, nor Teammates who represent Naval Special Warfare,’ wrote Force Master Chief Michael Magaraci and Rear Adm.

Brian Losey, both of the U.S. Naval Special Warfare Command, criticizing former SEALs who sought to profit by talking about their exploits.